Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Modern Morals and Manners (1793) - segundo volume, cap. 1 - página 143 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=r0FKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA143, Printed for Luke White.
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The Enquirer : Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature (1797), Essay XV : Of Choice In Reading, p. 130, (1823 edition)
Book III, Ch.1
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Book V, Chapter 13, "General Features of Democracy"
Massacre is the too possible attendant upon revolution , and massacre is perhaps the most hateful scene, alllowing for its omentary duration, that any imagination can suggest, The fearful, hopeless, expectation of the defeated, and the blood-hound fury of their conquerors, is a complication of mischief that all which has been told of internal regions can scarcely surpass. The cold-blooded massacres that are perpetrated under the naem of criminal justice fall short of these in some of their most frightful aggravations. The ministers and instruments of law have by perform, and often bear their parts in the most shocking enormities without being sensible to the passions allied murders with the rudeness of an insulting triumph ; and, as the conduct themselves , in a certain sort, by known principles of injustice, the evil we have reason to apprehend has its limits. But the instruments of massacre are discharged from every restraint.
Book VIII, Ch.
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Book V, Ch. 5
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Book III, Chapter 9
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"Summary of Principles". 1.5
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